I'm surprised Buzzfeed snubbed Marisa Tomei in the best supporting actress category. And while Casablanca is a fine film that has become iconic I would argue that it was Bogie being Bogie while Watch on the Rhine required more of a performance out of Lukas.

At least Rocky was a good movie, even if it didn't deserve to win over Taxi Driver or Network. Same with Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas - they were both really good movies that year. Those aren't among the biggest snubs IMO. Ordinary People, Shakespeare in Loves, and How Green Was My Valley were all legitimate snubs where incredibly mediocre movies beat legitimately great movies.

And, eh, Ben Kingsley deserved the Oscar over Ralph Finnes and Tommy Lee Jones and he wasn't even nominated that year.

velvet_fog:At least Rocky was a good movie, even if it didn't deserve to win over Taxi Driver or Network. Same with Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas - they were both really good movies that year. Those aren't among the biggest snubs IMO. Ordinary People, Shakespeare in Loves, and How Green Was My Valley were all legitimate snubs where incredibly mediocre movies beat legitimately great movies.

And, eh, Ben Kingsley deserved the Oscar over Ralph Finnes and Tommy Lee Jones and he wasn't even nominated that year.

Marisa Tomei may have been a bit of an unknown and not done much after, but she absolutely farking nailed that part. It's an entertaining film because of 3 very fine performances by Tomei, Pesci and Fred Gwynne.

How about we just stop pretending that the Oscars even attempt to recognize greatness in filmmaking. The largest bloc of Academy voters are actors; I'd trust the views of cinematographers and editors much more on who should win best director and picture than actors.

That was the beginning of the end for me with Oscars. Shakespeare In Love and Gwyneth Paltrow winning over Saving Private Ryan and Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth hammered in the coffin nails. Since then it's been "what mediocre movie produced by Harvey Weinstein will all of a sudden have a mammoth marketing campaign behind it that will launch it into being a top contender"? These have included, but not limited to:

And this year it's Silver Linings Playbook. A very well acted movie to be sure, but as a film better than Argo, Lincoln or Life of Pi? Hardly. Yet, that is the current "everybody is talking about it" movie. And what do you know, just as the Oscar race is making its final lap.

gunga galunga:And this year it's Silver Linings Playbook. A very well acted movie to be sure, but as a film better than Argo, Lincoln or Life of Pi? Hardly. Yet, that is the current "everybody is talking about it" movie. And what do you know, just as the Oscar race is making its final lap.

It's because it just got widely released a few weeks ago, so the masses are just now experiencing it. But hands down it is the best acting I saw in any film last year, to the point where I would have gladly sat through it again immediately after it was over. It sucks for Cooper and De Niro that it just so happened to come out the same year as Lincoln.

I didn't see Life of Pi, but I did see Argo and Lincoln. As a film? I guess you could say Argo was the best "film", inasmuch that it did the best job establishing tension and drama. But I don't think anyone legitimately thinks that Silver Linings Playbook is going to win Best Picture. Argo, Lincoln, Life of Pi, and even Zero Dark Thirty have much better chances.

"In announcing my annual http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2013/02/outguess_ebert_in_an_easy_year .html">Outguess Ebert contest, I used a cocky headline: Outguess Ebert? I may have them all right, I followed by writing: "This year's Outguess Ebert contest seems a little like shooting fish in a barrel. For the first time in many a year, maybe ever, I think I've guessed every one correctly."

Every year it is the same. I come out of the gate filled with certainty, and as the deadline draws near I begin to falter. A guy has an ear to the ground. This year I now suspect I may have been mistaken in two categories.

For Best Picture, I joined nearly the whole world and countless awards shows by predicting "Argo," the thriller about how Hollywood outsmarted Iran during the hostage crisis. It was also my choice of the year's best movie.

Now, more and more, from many different quarters, I hear affection for "Silver Linings Playbook," People tell me, I have a brother-in- law exactly like that." I sense a groundswell."

farkeruk:I find The Artist a really odd choice. It's a good film, but was blown away by Hugo. Seemed to attract a lot of dust to the room at the end.

Hugo felt like the perfect movie to explain the power of film. I loved it, and I crossed my fingers because if there is anything actors love doing it's telling us how much acting changes and influences our lives*

gunga galunga:Uncle Pooky: But I don't think anyone legitimately thinks that Silver Linings Playbook is going to win Best Picture. Argo, Lincoln, Life of Pi, and even Zero Dark Thirty have much better chances.

From a recent blog post by Rogert Ebert, who has a very good track record with predicting the Oscars.

gunga galunga:And this year it's Silver Linings Playbook. A very well acted movie to be sure, but as a film better than Argo, Lincoln or Life of Pi? Hardly. Yet, that is the current "everybody is talking about it" movie. And what do you know, just as the Oscar race is making its final lap.

The problem with the Oscars is that what they really likes is theatre, not cinema. Make something that's cinematic, that uses a visual language and it goes right over their farking heads. It's why Kubrick and Hitchcock films never won Oscars (and I'm sure people would much rather watch Gigi than Vertigo).

Crash was a pretty good movie, in that by the end of the movie I hated just about everyone in the movie. That's good acting. I honestly have never watched Brokeback Mountain so I can't say if it's better or not.

My cousin is an insane movie geek. He loved Argo and thinks it will win, though he likes Silver Linings Playbookbetter.

\personally, my liking of an Oscar film seems to be tied directly to its box office draw - i.e., if it was a hit movie, the odds are much, much higher that I'll like it, as compared to standard Oscar-bait winners

The problem with these lists (OK, one of the problems with these lists) is hindsight. We are looking back at choices that were made many years ago and the movie or performance that withstands the test of time isn't necessarily the one that makes the biggest impact at the time it happened.

catmandu:The problem with these lists (OK, one of the problems with these lists) is hindsight. We are looking back at choices that were made many years ago and the movie or performance that withstands the test of time isn't necessarily the one that makes the biggest impact at the time it happened.

I don't remember either the English patient or Shakespeare in love being that much of an impact at the time, relative to the other contenders.

gunga galunga:And this year it's Silver Linings Playbook. A very well acted movie to be sure, but as a film better than Argo, Lincoln or Life of Pi? Hardly. Yet, that is the current "everybody is talking about it" movie. And what do you know, just as the Oscar race is making its final lap.

I live in Los Angeles, and I hadn't heard of Silver Linings Playbook before Oscar season started. Now it seems like every radio commercial is about that movie. But I find the radio ads less blatant then the "for your consideration" TV commercials. Hell, after the State of the Union speech, competing TV networks aired competing "making of" featurettes (probably DVD extras) - one was pimping Argo and the other waspimping Lincoln.

quizzical:gunga galunga: And this year it's Silver Linings Playbook. A very well acted movie to be sure, but as a film better than Argo, Lincoln or Life of Pi? Hardly. Yet, that is the current "everybody is talking about it" movie. And what do you know, just as the Oscar race is making its final lap.

I live in Los Angeles, and I hadn't heard of Silver Linings Playbook before Oscar season started. Now it seems like every radio commercial is about that movie. But I find the radio ads less blatant then the "for your consideration" TV commercials. Hell, after the State of the Union speech, competing TV networks aired competing "making of" featurettes (probably DVD extras) - one was pimping Argo and the other waspimping Lincoln.

Silver lining playbook would be right at home taking a Bollywood Oscar.

Fano:catmandu: The problem with these lists (OK, one of the problems with these lists) is hindsight. We are looking back at choices that were made many years ago and the movie or performance that withstands the test of time isn't necessarily the one that makes the biggest impact at the time it happened.

I don't remember either the English patient or Shakespeare in love being that much of an impact at the time, relative to the other contenders.

I am not saying that every mention on this list was that kind of a situation but there are some. This quote FTA kind of sums up what I was trying to say:

"While Lukas is an accomplished actor and Rhine is a fine film, neither matches Casablanca's legacy."

It does seem that, the further back an article or list like this goes, the more we are looking at legacy rather than impact.

Uncle Pooky:gunga galunga: Uncle Pooky: But I don't think anyone legitimately thinks that Silver Linings Playbook is going to win Best Picture. Argo, Lincoln, Life of Pi, and even Zero Dark Thirty have much better chances.

From a recent blog post by Rogert Ebert, who has a very good track record with predicting the Oscars.